Roger Mosey (born 4 January 1958)"Rosey Mosey, Esq"
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. He was previously the Head of

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Television News and Director of the Beijing 2008 and

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Olympic Games coverage. His other positions have included that of Producer to the BBC's New York bureau and Editor of ''

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'' on

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. He is a trustee of the Royal Institute of British Architects. In October 2013, Mosey became Master of

.John Plunket
"Roger Mosey quits BBC to head Selwyn College, Cambridge"
guardian.co.uk, 2 July 2013 He often contributes articles and columns to international newspapers including ''

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,'' and the ''

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''.

Education

Mosey was born in

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in 1958 and educated at Bradford Grammar School. He then studied at

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, where he received a degree in history and modern languages."Honoraries: Roger Mosey"
University of Lincoln He appeared on ''

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'' in 1978, as a member of the team representing his college. In 2011, Mosey was awarded an honorary doctorate by the

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Career

After university he joined Pennine Radio, Bradford, as a Community Affairs Producer; his BBC career began in 1980 when he joined

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as a reporter. His first job in network radio was on ''The Week in Westminster'', and he then moved to ''Today Programme'' as a producer and to the BBC's New York bureau before becoming editor of ''PM'' in 1987."Roger Mosey, Director London 2012"
Media Festival, 2011 He was editor of Radio 4's ''Today'' from March 1993 until appointment as Controller of BBC Radio Five Live at the beginning of 1997. Under his editorship, ''Today'' won Sony Gold Awards in 1994 and 1995, a British Environment & Media Award and was named “Radio Programme of the Year” by the Broadcasting Press Guild in 1995. BBC Radio Five Live was named the Sony National Radio Station of the Year 1998; and BBC Television News won a number of

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awards for journalism, including “Programme of the Year” for ''

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'' (2002) and the '' Ten O'Clock News'' (2004). The ''Ten O'Clock News'' also received

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awards in both 2004 and 2005. He recruited James Naughtie to join the ''Today'' presenting team and introduced

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and Richard Littlejohn to ''Five Live''. He brought Dermot Murnaghan and

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to the BBC to present ''Breakfast''. He is a Fellow of The

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. In 2003, when Head of News at the BBC, Mosey was asked to head a landmark workstream looking at the BBC's values. As Head of Sport he cancelled ''

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'' after a 48-year run and oversaw the move to

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in 2010. He was in charge of the BBC's coverage of the 2012 Olympics. He was replaced as Head of Sport by Barbara Slater, who oversaw the move of BBC Sport to

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in Salford Quays in 2011. He became the BBC's Editorial Director in May 2013, but this appointment proved to be short lived. Upon leaving the BBC, Mosey wrote of the various biases in the work of the organisation. Writing in ''The Times'', he said that the organisation was too

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, had failed to "give enough space to anti-immigration views or to EU-withdrawalists" and had uniformity in its views. Mosey proposed that the organisation should share the licence fee with others. In 2013, Mosey was elected to succeed Richard Bowring as Master of

. Announced on 2 July, he took up the role in October 2013. In 2013 it was announced Mosey would be the Chair of Bishop Grosseteste University's university council.

Personal life

His interests include football (he is a Bradford City fan), movies, and reading thrillers and political biographies.

References

External links

BBC Press Office biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mosey, Roger 1958 births Living people Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford BBC executives Masters of Selwyn College, Cambridge English radio producers English television producers English television executives People associated with Bishop Grosseteste University People associated with the University of Lincoln People educated at Bradford Grammar School

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